The Plan (1): The separation between religious moral codes and Ethics

As I said, this Blog will deal with “Ethics”. For now I won't be outlining a concept or definition of ethics but I will be making some notes about one important question: the separation between ethics and religious moral codes.

 

Some people think that when a priest says that morality are in decline in the XXI century, he is talking about the presence of homosexuals (they tend to call them: “queers”), prostitutes (“whores”) and, for instance, promiscuous  women (“bitches”) in the midst of society. Few times people tend to think that priests are going to talk about environment, ridiculous donations to third world countries, treatment of animals, etc.; despite the fact that these issues are much more important that the question of the “queers” and the “whores” ―although I don’t intend to say that the issues of sexual behavior doesn´t have moral relevance―. Usually they say that the bible and prayer books contain the truth. They want them memorized, but don't want people to think. We have to remember that there are more moral questions to discuss when we go to some grill restaurant than when we have casual sex.

 

The Plan

(NOFX)

Call it libertarian, because we do as we please

Don't need fear, or force or farce to know morality

Because morals aren't substance you can shove in someone's ear

They're basically a bi-product of a mind thinking clear

 

The plan, the plan

 

It's nothing like the bible, there's no lesson to be learned

It ain't the 10 commandments, cause nothings written in stone

It has to do with freedom and personal liberty

I don't fuck with you don't fuck with me

 

The blueprints of a better world

Were written on a postage stamp

No one bothered to read the front

Stick out their tongue to lick the back

 

The plan, the plan, the plan, the plan

 

If you're not part of the cure

You're part of the disease

Father time will tell us who concedes

The blueprints of a better world

 Disguise and revealed as fortunes

10,000 Chinese Restaurant

Customers prefer not to read it

when they're taught

Don't think, just eat it

A turning point we call the plan

In order to know what is “ethics”, we just have to know that is freedom. . .  but remember that your freedom finish where another's freedom begins. That’s all.

 

EA

Bilbao, 08-VIII-2008